Stories

Flanders, Belgium, is known as the heartland of cycling. How do you plan a trip to this cycling walhalla?

The high mass of the cycling spring takes place every fourteenth Sunday of the year.

When your legs explode and arms go numb, you’ve arrived on the Koppenberg, a Flemish climb that has reduced pro bike racers to shuffling, broken survivors.

Some facts & Figures about DE RONDE

Want to experience the Ronde van Vlaanderen first-hand? Plan carefully. Here are our 10 tips.

This will, without any doubt, be the most exciting Ronde ever - because it is so much more than just another race.

There are some editions of the Tour of Flanders in which the winner, no matter how heroic his exploits may be, is not the one that most people end up...

Flanders is cycling 365 days a year. We have loads of sportives, races, cycling museums and routes to discover...and we have the perfect weather for Flandriens.

In the brochure at the national cycling museum it’s explained that the nickname “Flandrien” was typical for the Flemish track cyclists who were showmen for...

The Flanders Divide, a bikepacking route right through Flanders.

The Flandrien Challenge is a collection of 59 iconic Flemish cobbled sections and (normally cobbled) hills and 72 hours to tame them.

A man made of iron, wrapped in a rainbow jersey. The 1950 World Cycling Championships in Moorslede ended splendidly for the home crowd.

Rik Van Steenbergen and Rik Van Looy were the two key figures in the Belgian selection, but they weren't the best friends.

Ronse oozes cycling history. The pearl of the Flemish Ardennes has twice hosted the UCI Road World Championships.

Cyclo-cross is the bastard son of classic cycling.

You’ve mastered your local cyclocross league, or maybe no longer finish last, and now you want to broaden your racing horizons.

Cycling and drinking beer: a difficult combination? Maybe, but somehow they go together very well in Flanders.

There may be a bigger pool of riders these days but there are no truly great riders like Eddy Merckx amongst them.

Over the years, the Tour of Flanders has drawn many big cycling champions to Flanders, both foreign and domestic.

In the Tour of Flanders Centre, our starting point, two cobblestones are evidence of Van Petegem’s Tour victories in 1999 and 2003.

The French Alcyon cycling brand has been the major sponsor of some of the world’s best cyclists in the early years of cycling.

Dieter Gussé not only looks rugged, with his long hair and black sideburns, he is also rake-thin like a professional cyclist.

The Muur, the Koppenberg, the Paterberg... these are only a few of the legendary cobbled climbs where cycling history was written.